Demand growth in commodity markets seen modest

Despite signs of recovery in demand and supply, global commodity markets covering energy products, metals (base, precious and industrial) and agriculture continued to remain vulnerable to a clutch of uncertainties including sustained global economic growth, monetary policy, exchange rate, geopolitics and not the least, weather.
Many of these factors played out in their own way the whole of 2013 – some favourably like the weather, and some otherwise, like geopolitics and monetary policy – but they all have refused to go away. Most of the driving forces will be around in 2014………………………………………..Full Article: Source